Accident description
Last updated: 26 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 30 SEP 1949 |
| Type: | Fairchild C-82 Packet |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 48-582 |
| C/n / msn: | 10217 |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 8 km (5 mls) NW of McCleary, WA (United States of America) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Tacoma-McChord AFB, WA (TCM/KTCM), United States of America |
| ? |
Engine failure during training flight; crashed. The crash caused a forest fire.
Sources:
» Thomas Brügge
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
